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The whole science of mathematics depends upon zero. Zero alone determines the value in mathematics. Zero is in itself nothing. Mathematics is based upon nothing, and, consequently, arises out of nothing.

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The cells are thus the stomachs of which the plant has millions like mouths.

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During its development the animal passes through all stages of the animal kingdom. The foetus is a representation of all animal classes in time.

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Man is the summit, the crown of nature's development, and must comprehend everything that has preceded him, even as the fruit includes within itself all the earlier developed parts of the plant. In a word, Man must represent the whole world in miniature.

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Born: August 1, 1779
Died: August 11, 1851 (aged 72)
Bio: Lorenz Oken was a German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist. Oken was born Lorenz Okenfuss in Bohlsbach, Ortenau, Baden, and studied natural history and medicine at the universities of Freiburg and Würzburg.

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